On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Greg Brown wrote: >> Important to emphasize this. The issue raised on the call was not >> trademark but brand. This entire thread is noise :) > > I apologize for the "noise". :-) But the notes from the board meeting > suggested that we work with both branding and legal to resolve any potential > conflict:
Hi folks. There seems to be some misunderstanding of how we work around here. The legal discuss list is for public discussion of licensing issues related to use of Apache projects. The brand management list is for the new VP to organize and promote Apache brands. The legal internal list is for discussion with Apache's lawyer. The dev lists are for public technical development of our projects. In other words, please don't ask *here* for advice from Apache's lawyers. Larry has (and I presume will continue to do so) refused to hold strategy discussions regarding our legal options on a public list. That's because of the way courts and privileged information works. Please don't be alarmed by that refusal. He is absolutely right (trust me). If you want to have a discussion about legal strategy, the procedure is to have that discussion on legal-internal and CC your project's private list. Thank you for you concern, ....Roy
